smoky

Filled with smoke.

a smoky cabin

1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell the Third,” Part 3, in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: Edward Moxon, 1839, p. 240, Hell is a city much like London— A populous and a smoky city;

Giving off smoke.

a smoky oil lamp

1894, George Santayana, Sonnet, in Sonnets and Other Verses, Cambridge, MA: Stone and Kimball, p. 5, Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.

Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke.

a smoky whisky

Resembling or composed of smoke.

Blackened by smoke.

(of a person's voice) Having a deep, raspy quality, often as a result of smoking tobacco.

Attractive in a sensual way; sultry.

(music) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.

a few smoky jazz notes

1962, Philip Larkin, “Billie’s Golden Years,” The Daily Telegraph, 17 October, 1962, republished in All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961—1971, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985, p. 73, […] the sombre and magnificent Davis fronts both his Quartet and Gil Evans’s orchestra, pouring out a succession of smoky and sonorous solos […]

(obsolete)Giving off steam or vapour.

1594, Thomas Kyd (translator), Cornelia (Cornélie) by Robert Garnier, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busbie, Act V, He wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his sides, That fro the wound the smoky blood ran bubling, Where-with he staggred;

(obsolete)Obscuring or insubstantial like smoke.

(obsolete)Suspicious; open to suspicion; jealous.

1765, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Act I, in The Works of Samuel Foote, London: George Robinson et al., 1799, Volume 2, p. 18, […] this old brother of ours tho’ is smoky and shrewd, and tho’ an odd, a sensible fellow;